Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 62 69
Rank change year-on-year -41 +7 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,680 1,936 3,636
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.78% 4.31% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 4.66% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,234 972 2,726
10th Percentile £47,214 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -7.14% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68,936 41,540 89,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.11% 92.39% 81.68%
Number of salaries quoted 47,487 22,330 63,275
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,824 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 21 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 21 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -35 1,523 £75,000 +2.04% 391
UK excluding London -80 828 £65,000 -7.14% 312
Work from Home -27 747 £67,500 -3.57% 249
London -11 721 £85,000 +3.03% 170
North of England -47 334 £69,310 -4.40% 95
South East -27 223 £66,250 -5.36% 98
North West -48 183 £75,000 +3.45% 59
Midlands -67 87 £67,500 - 26
South West -72 84 £52,500 -23.39% 37
Yorkshire -32 81 £65,000 -11.79% 19
North East +9 70 £65,000 +2.36% 18
West Midlands -49 61 £78,750 +12.50% 17
East of England -18 44 £60,100 -1.88% 12
Scotland -69 28 £60,000 -24.44% 13
Wales -40 25 £67,500 +29.81% 6
East Midlands -67 25 £65,000 - 9
Northern Ireland -26 7 £62,500 +25.00% 29
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 1

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 25 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 24 (1.43%) Confluence
3 14 (0.83%) Apache
3 14 (0.83%) IIS
4 13 (0.77%) CMS
5 10 (0.60%) JBoss
6 9 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.36%) WordPress
9 5 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.30%) Drupal
9 5 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.24%) Camunda
10 4 (0.24%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.24%) nginx
11 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.12%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.12%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (0.54%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.36%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.30%) Oracle Retail
2 5 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.12%) Shopify
6 1 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 893 (53.15%) AWS
2 727 (43.27%) Azure
3 313 (18.63%) GCP
4 252 (15.00%) Serverless
5 172 (10.24%) GitHub
6 169 (10.06%) SaaS
7 140 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
8 119 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
9 100 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
9 100 (5.95%) Amazon S3
10 83 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 75 (4.46%) Azure Service Bus
12 70 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
13 66 (3.93%) Amazon EC2
14 64 (3.81%) GitHub Copilot
15 61 (3.63%) Amazon SQS
16 59 (3.51%) Azure AKS
17 50 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
18 45 (2.68%) PaaS
19 43 (2.56%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.81%) Broadband
2 24 (1.43%) Network Security
3 12 (0.71%) DMARC
3 12 (0.71%) MQTT
4 11 (0.65%) DNS
5 10 (0.60%) Internet
6 8 (0.48%) Firewall
6 8 (0.48%) VPN
7 7 (0.42%) AMQP
7 7 (0.42%) DHCP
7 7 (0.42%) HTTP
7 7 (0.42%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.36%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.30%) LTE
9 5 (0.30%) RFID
10 3 (0.18%) Modbus
11 2 (0.12%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.12%) SNMP
11 2 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (14.52%) MongoDB
2 200 (11.90%) NoSQL
3 183 (10.89%) PostgreSQL
4 120 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
5 113 (6.73%) Azure SQL Database
6 101 (6.01%) MySQL
7 79 (4.70%) Relational Database
7 79 (4.70%) SQL Server
8 51 (3.04%) Redis
9 47 (2.80%) DynamoDB
10 46 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
11 29 (1.73%) Big Data
12 26 (1.55%) BigQuery
13 23 (1.37%) RDBMS
14 13 (0.77%) Pinecone
15 8 (0.48%) Data Lake
15 8 (0.48%) Db2
16 7 (0.42%) DTS
16 7 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
17 6 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 200 (11.90%) Git
2 160 (9.52%) GitLab
3 128 (7.62%) Jenkins
4 55 (3.27%) TeamCity
5 49 (2.92%) JIRA
6 47 (2.80%) JUnit
7 38 (2.26%) Cucumber
8 31 (1.85%) Mockito
9 30 (1.79%) Claude Code
9 30 (1.79%) Cypress.io
10 28 (1.67%) CircleCI
11 27 (1.61%) Maven
12 17 (1.01%) Selenium
12 17 (1.01%) Vite
13 16 (0.95%) JMeter
13 16 (0.95%) SonarQube
14 13 (0.77%) Postman
15 12 (0.71%) REST Assured
16 9 (0.54%) Bitbucket
16 9 (0.54%) Spock
General
1 443 (26.37%) Finance
2 305 (18.15%) Social Skills
3 159 (9.46%) Banking
4 149 (8.87%) Public Sector
5 98 (5.83%) Retail
6 95 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
7 89 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 89 (5.30%) Law
8 54 (3.21%) Financial Institution
9 47 (2.80%) Back Office
10 30 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (1.73%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.55%) Marketing
13 18 (1.07%) Aerospace
14 17 (1.01%) Advertising
15 16 (0.95%) Billing
16 15 (0.89%) Legal
17 14 (0.83%) Games
18 12 (0.71%) Front Office
19 10 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 582 (34.64%) Developer
2 402 (23.93%) Senior
3 344 (20.48%) Software Engineer
4 240 (14.29%) Architect
5 235 (13.99%) Lead
6 148 (8.81%) .NET Developer
7 139 (8.27%) Full-Stack Developer
8 132 (7.86%) Java Developer
9 123 (7.32%) Java Engineer
10 118 (7.02%) Senior Software Engineer
11 115 (6.85%) Senior Developer
12 90 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
13 86 (5.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 75 (4.46%) Principal Engineer
15 68 (4.05%) Software Developer
16 60 (3.57%) Lead Developer
17 57 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
18 53 (3.15%) Senior Java Engineer
19 49 (2.92%) Java Software Engineer
20 44 (2.62%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 409 (24.35%) .NET
2 372 (22.14%) React
3 347 (20.65%) Node.js
4 279 (16.61%) Spring
5 266 (15.83%) RESTful
6 256 (15.24%) Spring Boot
7 225 (13.39%) REST
8 204 (12.14%) Kafka
9 169 (10.06%) .NET Core
9 169 (10.06%) AngularJS
9 169 (10.06%) ASP.NET
10 157 (9.35%) Vue
11 135 (8.04%) ASP.NET Core
12 86 (5.12%) HTML
13 82 (4.88%) ASP.NET Web API
14 81 (4.82%) .NET Framework
14 81 (4.82%) gRPC
15 78 (4.64%) CSS
16 72 (4.29%) Blazor
17 67 (3.99%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 499 (29.70%) Cloud Native
2 291 (17.32%) Distributed Systems
3 116 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 80 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
5 73 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.74%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.68%) Over-the-Top Content
9 34 (2.02%) Onboarding
10 32 (1.90%) Algorithms
10 32 (1.90%) Public Cloud
11 29 (1.73%) Data Structures
12 27 (1.61%) AI Agents
13 25 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
13 25 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (1.37%) Mobile App
15 22 (1.31%) e-Learning
15 22 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
16 21 (1.25%) PKI
17 20 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 102 (6.07%) Linux
2 44 (2.62%) Windows
3 20 (1.19%) Unix
4 7 (0.42%) CentOS
4 7 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.30%) Debian
6 5 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.18%) Android
7 3 (0.18%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.12%) AIX
9 1 (0.060%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 848 (50.48%) CI/CD
2 731 (43.51%) Agile
3 613 (36.49%) DevOps
3 613 (36.49%) Software Engineering
4 465 (27.68%) Full-Stack Development
5 405 (24.11%) Containerisation
6 386 (22.98%) Mentoring
7 350 (20.83%) Test Automation
8 340 (20.24%) Event-Driven
9 331 (19.70%) AI
10 317 (18.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 317 (18.87%) Infrastructure as Code
11 290 (17.26%) Problem-Solving
12 219 (13.04%) Scrum
13 212 (12.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 201 (11.96%) Technical Leadership
15 198 (11.79%) TDD
16 189 (11.25%) Coaching
17 188 (11.19%) Clean Code
18 176 (10.48%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 553 (32.92%) Java
2 422 (25.12%) Python
3 412 (24.52%) SQL
4 403 (23.99%) C#
5 378 (22.50%) JavaScript
6 308 (18.33%) TypeScript
7 119 (7.08%) Go
8 50 (2.98%) Scala
9 44 (2.62%) PHP
10 43 (2.56%) C++
11 42 (2.50%) Bash
12 36 (2.14%) Ruby
13 26 (1.55%) C
14 24 (1.43%) Rust
15 23 (1.37%) Bicep
15 23 (1.37%) PowerShell
16 17 (1.01%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.95%) Kotlin
18 12 (0.71%) Shell Script
19 11 (0.65%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 201 (11.96%) Security Cleared
2 166 (9.88%) Degree
3 135 (8.04%) SC Cleared
4 82 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (3.51%) AWS Certification
6 32 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 31 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.55%) CISSP
9 25 (1.49%) Azure Certification
10 19 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 15 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
12 14 (0.83%) DBS Check
13 11 (0.65%) CISM
13 11 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.48%) PhD
15 7 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.42%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.30%) ISACA
16 5 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.30%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (7.08%) QA
2 57 (3.39%) Accessibility
3 38 (2.26%) GDPR
3 38 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (1.43%) NIST
4 24 (1.43%) PCI DSS
5 23 (1.37%) SOC 2
6 19 (1.13%) WCAG
7 15 (0.89%) GRC
7 15 (0.89%) NCSC
8 11 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.18%) IFRS
12 3 (0.18%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.18%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.18%) SEPA
13 2 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 489 (29.11%) Docker
2 20 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.24%) Firmware
4 3 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.060%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 524 (31.19%) Kubernetes
2 318 (18.93%) Terraform
3 93 (5.54%) Ansible
4 91 (5.42%) Grafana
5 51 (3.04%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.37%) Kibana
7 22 (1.31%) Argo
8 14 (0.83%) Puppet
9 13 (0.77%) Cilium
10 12 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.42%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.24%) Packer
12 4 (0.24%) Podman
13 3 (0.18%) Rancher
14 2 (0.12%) Istio
14 2 (0.12%) MIIS
14 2 (0.12%) Nagios
14 2 (0.12%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.060%) logstash
15 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 235 (13.99%) Microsoft
2 73 (4.35%) Google
3 52 (3.10%) Oracle
4 45 (2.68%) Typelevel
5 32 (1.90%) OpenAI
6 24 (1.43%) Splunk
7 23 (1.37%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.07%) AppDynamics
9 15 (0.89%) IBM
10 14 (0.83%) Databricks
11 13 (0.77%) Red Hat
11 13 (0.77%) SendGrid
12 12 (0.71%) Adobe
13 10 (0.60%) Salesforce
14 9 (0.54%) Guidewire
14 9 (0.54%) SAP
14 9 (0.54%) ServiceNow
15 8 (0.48%) Cisco
15 8 (0.48%) CrowdStrike
16 7 (0.42%) OneLogin